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Are Antiparticles the Bricks of Antimatter?

Paul Dirac thought some more about antiparticles. He wondered, if protons, electrons and neutrons stick together to make atoms, and atoms stick together to make everything around us, what we call matter�..

Then what about positrons, antiprotons and antineutrons? Do they stick together to make antiatoms? Are antiatoms the building bricks of antimatter? (antistrawberries, antistars, antiyou?!) Paul certainly thought so, and modern-day physicists agree with him. But thinking something is possible doesn't mean it's necessarily true�

So right now, while you are reading these pages, scientists are hard at work on this mystery. At a place called CERN... they are trying to build antimatter!

(What is antimatter? - page 5 of 6)
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